General/Vascular Surgery at St. Mary's

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This elective is designed to offer fourth year students' exposure to common General and Vascular Surgery cases at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital. Students will have the opportunity to work with SLU School of Medicine faculty Dr. Jason Keune, Dr. Scott Wong, Dr. Adam Ring, Dr. Theresa Schwartz and others pending availability. Objectives include: To gain experience with common surgical procedures in a community hospital setting. To reinforce proper surgical operating room procedures in terms of scrubbing, sterile technique, knot tying, handling of surgical instruments, and suturing. To refine history and physical skills involving surgical cases. To learn basic pre and post-operative management of common surgical procedures. To learn the evaluation and long-term management of common surgical issues in the outpatient setting.